Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
+ EXERCISE FOR THE FAIR.
strengthening the Muscles of the Cheek.
Fashionable Figures.

Strengthening the Muscles of the Cheek.
Fashionable Figures.
Can you imagine woman seated on
her chair at home and polzing one cheek
with one finger by the hour day after
day? Can you easily picture to yourself
another woman working her lower jaw
necessarily and most vigorously an hour
or two every day for a month? Yet this
is done by our sisters and our cousins and
our aunts all over town. The reason
they do this is that they are not satisfied
with their faces. This one has a depres-
sion in her cheek, and that is what she is
poking with her finger. She expects so
to strengthen the muscles in her cheek as
to make it full and plump and round, as
it ought to be, and used to be in her
babyhood. The other one is working her
lower jaw in order to develop the lower
part of her face, which she thinks is not
round and curving enough; or, if she is
married. she wants her face to look as
well as the plumpest among her lady
friends. There is a little book in current
use which gives the ladies the necessary
instructions for pol1ing this part Of the
face and working the other, and it is this
little book that is giving our women this
novel employment.
This manual for encouraging the vanity
of women also gives instruction in the art
of developing the arms and necks and
busts of the sex, but what it proposes for
them to do is only, after all, what they
are doing and have been doing always for
their own improvement. A man ezser-
cises for his health-a woman for her
looks. The growth of fashionable life,
with the attendant increase of the use Of
low neck dresses, has set many and many
hundreds of women who want to shine in
society to raclling their brains and busy
ing themselves toward improving their
appearance. Many women who want to
wear low ball and dinner dresses find
they have bothersome bones in their
necks, which are quite useful in their
way, but have no right to expose them
selves just where fair, smooth surface
is desired. To sink these out of sight
amid the fullness of fashionable neck or
chest is what is giving many pugilist
and fencing master and gymnasium
manager wealth and business just now.
The women are doing much, perhaps,
to make themselves healthy and pretty
than they ever did or had chance to do
in modern times before. Horseback rid
ing, rowing, swimming, walking, exercis-
ing in gymnasiums, sparring, playing
games that strengthen muscles and de-
velop forms, and studying hygiene-with
as little study and as much fun as posi-
ble-are some of their devices Why,
the young women are undergoing q revo-
luton! Their mothers don't know what
to make of them-though candor COM
pels the admission that great many of
the mothers are paying as much attention
to the subject as any one-except that
they may not all have the new science
down as finely as that lily of the stage
who is described in the provincial papers
as taking cold bath every morning to
preserve her health, washing her face
with cold cream instead of water so as to
avoid wrinkles, and walking like a post
man to keep herself muscular. New
York Sun. -.
The silent man may be overlooked now,
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